Optimal process oversight empowers you to make informed decisions.
ControlStar
Network Control
MMI - The Window on Process
Network observation is usually performed from workstations with high-resolution colour monitors measuring up to 30 inches diagonally. Furthermore, large-screen display systems are employed to display more comprehensive network interrelationships. Printers, hardcopy units and sometimes even plotters or data recorders round off the range of output devices.
Data input is normally performed using a PC mouse to navigate through dialog boxes or control windows on colour monitors or using alphanumeric keyboards, when necessary with a special function key assignment for functions which are required particularly quickly or often.
A control room desk normally consists of one workstation computer with up to eight colour monitors, one keyboard and a mouse. When several monitors are in use on a single workstation, the cursor can be moved continuously across all the monitors; input using the keyboard or mouse are only effective on the monitor currently selected using the cursor (multi-monitoring). All workstations offer the same fundamental functionality. The user rights profile is defined during user login.
ControlStar supports the operator with the following familiar basic functions:
Pull-down menus or fixed selection buttons on the monitor
Enlarging or reducing the scale of the display (zooming)
Enlarging or reducing the scale of the display whilst suppressing or displaying additional information previously defined (decluttering)
Horizontal or vertical shifting of the monitor image as a partial view of a global picture (panning or scrolling)
Overlaying display levels in order to present or superimpose various information at the same positions on a screen (e.g. measured values of voltage/current/power, etc.)
Multi-window technique with drag&drop and navigator
X11 and JAVA standards
In order to prevent unauthorized access, privilege levels can be introduced with which operating personal can again access via a password or a coded identity card to carry out various task areas (e.g. for normal control-room operations, for data maintenance, for system maintenance, for access to certain sub-networks, for training functions, etc.).
